Barnaby Joyce (Queensland, National Party, Leader of The Nationals in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

I am only too happy to break into song—into an aria—for Senator Xenophon! What I was going through with the people up this end of the chamber beforehand was item 2. Upon reading it, I was thinking, 'This is close; this is something we possibly could support,' knowing that, if we did and we had the numbers, the bill would then bounce back to the other place. We could not support item 3—definitely not. On a further reading of item 2 we decided that it started to wander off into an area that we probably could not support. We would actually have to sit down with you and change it, but that is not going to happen now so we will be succinct and say that we are not supporting it.